London

An Inquisition Indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at London that
is to say at the Precinct of Bridewell hospital in the Ward of Farringdon without in London
aforesaid on the twelfth day of August in the thirty fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of
the faith and so forth before Thomas Shelton< no role > Gentleman Coroner of our said Lord the King for the
City of London and Borough of Sothwark on view of the body of Samuel James< no role > now here
lying dead by the oath of Roger Owen< no role > Edward Owen< no role > Thomas Couling< no role > George Sanderson< no role >
John Harris< no role > Robert smart< no role > John Sanders< no role > William Griffiths< no role > John Gearing< no role > William Rundle< no role >
Richard Morrall< no role > Philip Wagland< no role > and Thomas Underhill< no role > good and lawfull men of the City
of London aforesaid who being now here duly chosen sworn and charged to enquire for our
said Lord the King when here send in what manner the said Samuel James< no role > came to his death
say upon their oath that the said Samuel James< no role > on the twelfth day of August in the year
aforesaid being sick and diseased in his body and delicious It so happened that the said
Samuel James< no role > accidentally casually and by misfortune threw himself from and out of a
certain window belonging to a certain room situate up four pair of stairs in the dwelling
house of one Richard Clark< no role > Esquire there situate into a certain Area there belonging
to the said dwelling house by means whereof he the said Samuel James< no role > did then and
there receive divers mortal Cruises and fractures in and upon divers parts of his body of
which said Mortal Cruises and fractures the said Samuel James< no role > did then and there
die And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Samuel
James in Manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally causally and by misfortune came
to his death and not otherwise In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner as the said
Roger Owen< no role > the foreman of the said Jurors on behalf and the rest of his fellows in their
Presences have to this Inquisition set their hands and seals the day year and place first
above written

Rogers Owen [mark] Foreman< no role >